India: “Going digital only way to save Telugu literature.”
The annual Vijayawada Book Fair has been running since January 3 and winds up today, January 12....
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Category: South Asia
Big Bad Wolf sold $1.8 million worth of English-language books in 11 days in Myanmar last year. Can it do better in 2020?
Traditionally Big Bad Wolf, the world’s biggest book sale, does not share revenue numbers, just...
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India’s New Delhi World Book Fair kicked off today. Can it return to form with more than 1 million visitors?
The New Delhi World Book Fair is not India’s biggest literary event, but is widely regarded as the...
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Bangladesh handed out 353 million school text books on New Year’s Day. 2.2 billion books in total since the programme began
Bangladesh has 42 million children in its primary and secondary school, and every year, on the...
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Pakistan has more internet users than the UK, but Pakistan’s first street library opens amid belief that books and digital are separate planets
The good news is Pakistan’s Karachi got its first street library this past week, and it received a...
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India’s 2019 Chennai Book Fair saw 1.5 million visitors spend $2.5 million on books in 2019. Will records fall again in January?
India may not have the biggest book fair in the world – that honour goes to Egypt – but for...
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Globally Amazon’s KDP has now published more than 2 million books. Has 100,000 authors in India
At a time when there is much speculation e-readers are yesterday’s devices, and that anyway...
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While western publishing parties, redux: Pakistan’s Islamabad Museum Book Fair opens Christmas Day
It cannot be stressed strongly enough that the global publishing industry is just that: global....
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While western publishing parties, 1 million expected at India’s Hyderabad Book Fair. The global book market has no time for holidays
At TNPS the auto-respond emails are flooding in as our many industry subscribers in the west put...
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9th Delhi Comic-Con set for 20-22 December
The annual Delhi Comic Con, lined up this year from December 20 through 23, is a reminder, if...
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Bangladesh author Mashiul Alam wins Sri Lanka’s 2019 Himal SouthAsian Short Story Competition
Himal Southasian has announced the winner of its 2019 short story competition, and it is...
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400,000 expected at Karachi Int. Book Fair but global publishers still treat Pakistan as a publishing backwater. Can digital revive Pakistan’s publishing fortunes?
One might think a country of 204 million people, with English as an official language, would be a...
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